Arte MK Makes Waves on Social Media

Videography by heartpatrick, kl/sg based photographer (click here to watch the video)

The social media is abuzz with amateur and professional photographyof recently completed artemk. A popular destination for fashionistas and social media influencers in kuala lumpur, malaysia for promotional photoshoots videos, the project has been used as a commercial backdrop for luggage label ‘tumitravel’ and wedding gown boutique “dressaville”. Popular instagram influencer and malaysia/singapore based photographer heartpatrick has been documenting the project’s construction progress and its impact on kuala lumpur’s skyline.

Images of arte mk in tumi travel adverts, photography credit: Tumi Malaysia

Images of arte mk in wedding gown boutique “dressaville” adverts, photography credit: dressaville

Image of arte mk on heartpatrick page, photography credit: heartpatrick

Aerial image of arte mk, photography credit: Heartpatrick

Arte mont kiara is unique expression and transformation of the typical “local” standard residential typology. The project comprising of two residential towers and a hotel form a ‘crescendo’, a sculpted composition marking this key site in kuala lumpur’s residential district mont kiara.

Façade of Arte MK, photography credit: Heartpatrick

At 236m and 58 storeys, the residential towers are complemented by a second skin, a series of fins that provide the 3 buildings with a single homogeneous form: the fins form a diaphanous layer, like the “friction ridge” pattern of a thumb print with loops, whorls and arches. The aluminium aero-foils manipulate the tower envelopes radically transforming their appearance via the unique variation in shapes created by the relationship of the fins to one another.

Podium, photography credit: Heartpatrick

The podium car park is similarly shrouded with horizontal fins massaging the box of the podium into an exuberant expression of arrival and building address. Arte mk is a playful interpretation of the typical residential typology and when complimented by the client’s “retro french interiors” it becomes an artistic articulation of kl domesticity into something unique and wonderful.